100 x 70 cm

Acrylic on canvas

Unframed

A blue male figure stands beside a vast, fantastical fish, part companion, part offering, part apparition. The work draws loosely on Hokusai's Dream of the Fisherman's Wife, but turns the scene into something stranger, more playful, and queer. Desire is not hidden here; it appears as colour, pattern, exposed body, flowers, and theatrical absurdity. The painting echos Matisse's Pink Nude of 1935 - a body allowed to be awkward, direct, and rhythmically alive rather than anatomically polished

The fish dominates the canvas like a living vessel - decorative, watchful, excessive - while the figure seems both vulnerable and triumphant. The painting moves between erotic joke, myth, cartoon, and dream. Its bright surface makes it immediately approachable, but underneath the humour is a more serious question: what happens when desire is allowed to become image, ritual and world?